F.P. Delme Radcliffe

Finely bound true first edition of F.P. Delme Radcliffe’s treatise on fox hunting, entitled Noble Science, that covers the whole spectrum of the fox hunting enthusiast to include hound breeding and management, the master, the huntsman and hunting in the field.

• F.P. Delme Radcliffe (English).
• The Noble Science: A Few General Ideas on Fox-Hunting for the Use of the Rising Generation of Sportsmen, and more especially those of the Hertfordshire Hunt Club.
• London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1839.
• 327 pages, and illustrated with seven full-page black-and-white plates and numerous head-an-tale pieces as well as a dedication page, an author’s preface, list of illustrations and table of contents.
• Bound by Bayntun, Bath in three-quarter morocco leather over marbled boards with decorated raised bands to the spine that also features gilt ruling and compartments with decorative embellishments in the compartments and gilt titling. There is gilt ruling to the covers, marbled endpapers, and all page ends are gold gilted; original cloth covers are bound into the rear of the book.